Seventy thousand soldiers of the Tiger Army dug trenches east of Osaka Castle and prepared to attack the shogunate army.
At this time, the battlefield has moved to the plain outside the city. After the reinforcements of 50,000 Tiger and Ben troops arrived, the shogunate army knew that it could no longer besiege Osaka Castle and removed the siege of Osaka. Now the shogunate army is stationed in the open area east of Osaka Castle.
zone.
The shogunate army had carefully observed the trench warfare in Huai'an and understood the role of trenches. At this time, they dug several layers of trenches on the open plains of Japan's Gyeonggi Province to defend themselves, trying to resist stubbornly.
Of course, in front of the Huben Army's mortars, these trenches are just fixed targets.
Zheng Kaicheng stood in the trench and used a telescope to observe the Japanese shogunate army one mile away.
According to intelligence reports, Japan now has 60,000 "rifleman" equipped with Minie rifles, who are the main force guarding the trenches. In addition, there are 20,000 cavalry behind the trenches. Although these cavalry are riding inferior Japanese horses, they are still
It has a certain impact. In addition, there are 25,000 Ashigaru and 5,000 Hatamoto samurai, a total of 110,000 people.
This 110,000-strong army is the main force of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan. As long as this team is defeated, the Tokugawa family will not be far from destruction.
Compared with the Tokugawa family's 60,000 riflemen who were not good at shooting, Li Zhifang now had 70,000 tiger soldiers and 5,000 Osaka local defenders on the battlefield in Osaka, which was far more powerful than the shogunate army.
Moreover, this time the 50,000 reinforcements brought all the 7,500 mortars that participated in the Huai'an battlefield. These mortars are now operated by skilled gunners, and their lethality is amazing.
In the trench on the side of the shogunate, the Tokugawa soldiers were holding on to their Mini rifles and still had confidence in the war. After all, the trench warfare was very advanced. It seemed that nothing could hurt them while they were hiding in the trench with their rifles.
Come here.
The shogunate soldiers of Japan still felt that they could defend their country.
The Japanese soldiers still don’t know how the Jiangbei Army was defeated in the Huai’an Battle. They only know that this time they pissed off the King of Tianjin. In any case, these trenches must be defended. If they cannot hold them, they may be loyal.
The shogunate will be destroyed.
Ashigaru General Matsudaira Zeye stood in the front line trench with a solemn expression. As an Ashigaru general who led eight hundred riflemen, Matsudaira Zeye knew more about the situation than the soldiers. The generals in the army rumored: The elder
After Doi Toshikatsu returned power to General Tokugawa, he entered Osaka Castle as a peace envoy. It is said that Doi Toshiki had a caesarean section in front of Zhong Feng, the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty.
However, even the noble act of disembowelment could not extinguish the anger of the people of the Ming Dynasty. The people of the Ming Dynasty threatened to destroy Japan and this country that was unique to all generations.
The fact that the country might be destroyed made Matsudaira Zeye very confused. He didn't know what his dignity as a samurai would be if Japan was destroyed, and how he would survive. If he couldn't win the war this time, Matsudaira Zeye would
You may no longer be qualified to call yourself a samurai.
"Fight hard! Failure means the destruction of the country!"
Matsudaira Zeye suddenly raised his katana and shouted at the iron gunners around him in the trench.
Hearing Matsudaira Zeye's words, the Japanese iron gunners were stunned, and they were all a little surprised. Defeat means the destruction of the country? Is this the last battle to defend Japan?
In Japan, a country ruled by samurai, the most indispensable thing is the spirit of dedication to the family. Hearing Matsudaira Zeye's roar, all the iron gunners' eyes turned red. If this battle is Japan's final battle,
Many shogunate soldiers were willing to fight until the last second.
"Fight hard!"
"Fight hard!"
"Fight to the end!"
The iron gunners clenched their fists and roared, each one determined to defeat the enemy to the death.
Songping Zeye looked at the surrounding trenches and felt relieved. This trench tactic was indeed a tactic created by Li Zhi, and it was impeccable. Whether it was rifles or artillery shells, there was no angle at which they could penetrate the trench buried under the ground.
Although the equipment of the Ming army on the opposite side is better than that here, if the infantry on the opposite side attacks the trench of the shogunate army, the shogunate army will wait for them to rush within 200 meters, then raise their heads and go out to deal with the enemy with one shot.
Unless artillery shells and bullets fall from the sky and are shot into the trench, nothing can harm the soldiers in the trench.
Songping Zeye had never seen the battlefield of the Huai'an War. He did not understand that the Huben Army's artillery shells really fell from the sky.
The war started with mortars.
Zheng Kaicheng waved his hand and ordered the flags to pass on his orders one by one. The soldiers of the Tiger Army pulled the mortar rope hard, and the quiet battlefield suddenly heard continuous shelling.
The sky above the battlefield was suddenly dominated by more than 7,000 mortar shells. The shells drew beautiful parabolas of fifty or even sixty degrees in the sky, flew to high altitudes, and then fell from high altitudes like stones toward the Japanese trenches.
Smash it away.
Songping Zeye looked at those little cannonballs flying high and was speechless with shock, and his eyes suddenly turned red.
Is there such a cannon in the world?
Drawing a beautiful curve in the sky, the mortar shells smashed into the trench like a god of death and exploded with a bang. The Japanese trench suddenly seemed to be filled with dazzling fireworks, blooming one after another.
Huge sparks came out.
Songping Zeye saw a cannonball land three feet away to his right, exploding between the two iron gunners. He only saw a flash of flames, and the two iron gunners screamed and fell to both sides.
The iron gunner's armor "Tokugawa Trunk" focuses on frontal defense and has no effect on such side-exploding explosions. The broken steel slag shot out of the cannonball ripped open the leather protection on the side of the armor like a flying knife.
It stabbed hard into the body of the iron gunner. The two seriously injured iron gunners kept rolling on the ground, letting out heart-rending screams, making the other iron gunners around them turn pale.
On the other side, a cannonball also fell four feet away to the left of Songping Zeye. This cannonball hit the head of an unlucky iron gunner, cracking his head open. The iron gunner was hit instantly
died.
The cannonball fell from the iron gunner's head to the ground and exploded under the iron gunner's body. Huge flames exploded, and the iron gunner's feet were immediately blown off and turned into pieces of flesh and bones.
The shock wave of the explosion splashed out. Fortunately, there were no other iron gunners around the iron gunner, and the shell did not kill the second person. However, all the blood from the iron gunner's lower limbs was splashed on the trench wall, turning the black and yellow
The earthen wall was painted blood red.
Songping Zeye's face turned as white as snow. What kind of cannon is this? It was the first time Songping Zeye heard that a cannon can be thrown at such a large angle. This is no longer like a cannon, but more like a catapult.
Doesn’t this mean we can only be beaten passively?
Songping Zeye was about to go to the right to see if the two seriously injured soldiers could be saved, but he heard the sound of tom tom shooting coming from the trench on the opposite side. The Ming people's artillery started firing again.
Isn’t this rate of fire too terrifying?
This exploding shell was no child's play. Songping Zeye immediately clung to the trench wall, daring not to move.
The explosions of explosive bombs were like fireworks, exploding in the Japanese trenches one after another.
